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Im Rahmen des Projekts „Alphabit“ wurden mit Kursleitenden aus dem Bereich Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung telefonische Interviews durchgeführt. Sie konzentrierten sich u. a. auf die Aspekte „Teilnehmende in Kursen“, „Status der Kursleitenden“ und „Neue Medien“. Ziel der Interviews war es, die Möglichkeiten für den Einsatz von neuen Medien in der Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsarbeit besser einschätzen zu können. Einige Aussagen der Kursleitenden geben Anlass zu einer kritischen Betra…
The institution-economic analysis of problematic principal-agent relationships at off-the-job courses offered by the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Services) shows: The introduction of education vouchers does not change anything about the weaknesses of the system because qualification still happens outside the market. What is rather needed is a redirection towards on-the-job qualification measures since only these can help unemployed persons to find a job. Thus, qualification vouc…
Care of the elderly in Germany can nowadays be guaranteed only thanks to the immigration of foreign domestic help and of foreign staff who do, however, not conform to the German job description of „Altenpfleger/in“ (specialist for old persons’ care). This tends to endanger high-quality standards in care. Further education courses directed towards an intercultural opening of old persons’ care could show a way from this dilemma: a team that consists of people from different origins can, with appr…
The staff in adult and continuing education is the most important factor for a high quality and demand-oriented development of training courses and their effective implementation. However, there existed only insufficient data and information on these persons. For the first time, the wb-personalmonitor now provides data on demographics, employment situation, living conditions, job profiles, qualifications as well as job related attitudes for the staff in adult and continuing education. Thus, the…
The day after tomorrow Didactical deliberations on the andragogical value chain Educational events should create value, be effectively sustainable in the “time after”. Even if “value” can mean most different things, it is always about the creation of value in educational work. Afterwards something has to be better than before. This article wants to show that for a value creating educational work, a row of didactical decisions need to be reflected upon and arranged. Therewith the focal point…
In the educational facilities of the State Sports Associations of the Bundesländer, open adult education is implemented which serves the goals of formation of personality and enlightenment, furthers maturity, and cultivates social competences, and which is - albeit decreasingly - publicly funded. More than 3.000 full-time and part-time pedagogical staff are employed in these facilities. Nearly 15.000 courses for about 300.000 participants are held. But this is not the only field within sports …
Can the benefit derived from a course in further education be measured? Which methodological considerations are to be taken into account? It must be defined first of all which indicators are supposed to indicate the benefit. Evaluators and stakeholders must agree on set points. Data have to be collected using the methods of qualitative as well as quantitative research. Under evaluation aspects, anecdotic evidence has no value. At the end of the article, the author sums up four basic methods of …
Teaching is fun. But teaching and learning situations bear the potential for conflict. With this book, the author elaborates on potential catalysts for conflict and provides strategies to professionally cope with these situations. While presenting best practice examples, he ponders alternative courses of action and delivers help for confident and competent teaching. The author also conveys concise background information on group processes. Because of its practical relevance, the book is not onl…
While the calls to take more notice of the significance of migration for adult education are loud and clear, notably little attention is paid to them with regard to work on categories. In adult education, fundamental theoretical work on definitions of “migration” is still far from complete. Even though individual studies deal with the term, it seems that attempts to clarify categories remain scarce. If adult education research on migration has a genuine interest in examining the risks of the hi…
